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...seminar about the humorous video he helped produce last year showcasing Currier to new residents.This year, Pforzheimer and Leverett HoCos made their own videos to incorporate into House tradition as well, according to those chairs.And last night, some freshmen, tempted by certain housing superstitions, practiced their own rituals too.Bach-Hue Le ’09 said yesterday she planned to go to each House with her friends and take jello shots, having heard from upperclassmen that this ritual brings luck. When asked which House she would hate to get placed in, she said, “there?...
...learned to deal with jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists, led by a hash-smoking pimp in a gold turban, for a two-day expulsion ritual. Unhappily, it involved slaughtering Ariane's pet goat and sprinkling its blood in every room. The Caliph's House ends with most obstacles surmounted - the jinns are gone, the books are allowed into the country untranslated - and the transplanted Londoners are much the better for it all. "There...
...hectare World Heritage Area, has in the past 30 years yielded astounding archaeological treasures. In 1968 the dunes surrendered Mungo Lady, the skeletal remains of a young woman whose burial site remains the oldest evidence of cremation ever found. The ocher-covered bones of the world's oldest known ritual burial, Mungo Man, were discovered in 1974, and since then more than 150 human burials - most of them more than 10,000 years old - have been unearthed, as well as shell-strewn middens, hearths and the bones of extinct megafauna. Webb, professor of Australian Studies at Bond University, has studied...
It’s become a college ritual: go out, party hard, post pictures on facebook.com. It isn’t unusual for many students, including those at Harvard, to post photographic evidence of themselves doing stupid and sometimes illegal things—but they may not realize just who is looking at these photos. An article in The Daily Princetonian on March 9 revealed that the Princeton Department of Public Safety has used facebook.com in investigating student-related incidents at the New Jersey school. Students who had posted pictures on Facebook of themselves climbing buildings were confronted by Public...
...look at the influence of the MBTA in students’ lives. The creation of the Silver Line has cut the time it takes to make the ritual commute to Logan from Cambridge almost in half. When students go to a House formal at a club downtown, the subway and T buses stop running by 2 am. Proposals to extend T hours are an issue that students should voice their opinions on. Likewise MBTA General Manager Dan Grabauskas has proposed a 25 percent increase in the cost of a fare on the T. Although this issue is not solely relevant...